as in eventually
at a later time
sooner or later, the police are going to track down the burglar
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Recent Examples of sooner or later
And then, sooner or later, things start clicking, and this happens, and that happens, and then things kind of work out.
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Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2025
He’s been so snake-bitten by injury, and mostly pretty fluky ones, that he’s got to catch a break sooner or later, right?
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 1 Jan. 2025
Vinicius Jr and Bellingham are already looking back to their usual selves, and Mbappe, the club are confident, will sooner or later be ruthless again in front of goal.
—Mario Cortegana, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
The current round of intense hostilities will end in 2025, but there will be other rounds sooner or later.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
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Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 7 Jan. 2025
He’s been so snake-bitten by injury, and mostly pretty fluky ones, that he’s got to catch a break sooner or later, right?
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 1 Jan. 2025
Vinicius Jr and Bellingham are already looking back to their usual selves, and Mbappe, the club are confident, will sooner or later be ruthless again in front of goal.
—Mario Cortegana, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
The current round of intense hostilities will end in 2025, but there will be other rounds sooner or later.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for sooner or later
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The family eventually made its way back to New York, and Cenat enrolled at SUNY Morrisville to study business administration.—
Damien Scott,
Billboard,
27 Jan. 2025
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Arsenal eventually went on to win the game 1-0 through Riccardo Calafiori to keep the pressure on league leader Liverpool, after Wolves had also gone to 10 men following João Gomez’s second yellow card in the 70th minute.—
Matias Grez,
CNN,
27 Jan. 2025
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In short, a century after Scopes’s eight-day trial ended, there’s now reason to hope that someday every student in the U.S.’s public schools will be in a position to appreciate that nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.—
Glenn Branch,
Scientific American,
24 Jan. 2025
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Prosecutor Joel Smith said the judge only had to consider if there is a mechanism that could allow Singler to be freed someday.—
Brian Melley,
The Denver Post,
24 Jan. 2025
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Presently, TikTok users are also jumping at the opportunity to film their V-Day candles from Diptyque in tranquil bedroom settings, with comments expressing the sentiment that this is just the sign users needed to finally buy their own.—
Stacia Datskovska,
WWD,
23 Jan. 2025
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After more than a decade of work on the film, the doc finally played film festivals in 2021 and got a wider release in 2023.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
23 Jan. 2025
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“Sooner or later.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sooner%20or%20later. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.
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